1611 : Gustoff II Adolf became King of Sweden at the age of 17.
1920 : The Communist Party of Australia was formed in Sydney.
1925 : John Logie Baird creates Britain’s first Television transmitter.
1928 : Lala Lajpat Rai, a protester of the Simon Commission in Lahore, was beaten by British police.
1945 : India became a member of the United Nations.
1960 : Successful transplant of a kidney to a living human was done for the first time.
1966 : Shiv Sena’s first Dussehra rally was held at Shivaji Park.
1973 : Completion of the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul connects Europe and Asia.
2008 : Graded blasts in several parts of Assam including Guwahati. More than 66 people died in it.
2013 : Sachin Tendulkar played his last Ranji Trophy match.
Famous Birthdays – October 30
1735: John Adams, the second president and first vice president of the United States.
1887: Sukumar Roy, Indian writer, founder of Bengali literature and children’s magazine Sandesh.
1909: Dr. Homi Bhabha, an Indian physicist.
1932: Barun De, Indian historian, and author.
1940: Vikram Gokhale, an Indian film, television and stage actor.
1948: Ritu Nanda, an Indian businesswoman, and insurance advisor.
1949: Pramod Mahajan, Indian Union Minister, and Rajya Sabha MP.
1951: Trilok Gurtu, Indian drummer and lyricist.
1952: Sangeetha Kalanidhi Aruna Sairam, an Indian classical vocalist.
1958: Abhijeet Bhattacharya, an Indian playback singer.
1960: Diego Maradona, Argentine footballer.
1981: Ivanka Trump, an American businesswoman, Advisor to the President.
1990: Rahi Jeevan Sarnobat, a female athlete from India.
Death Anniversaries – October 30
1883: Dayanand Saraswati, Indian philosopher, and scholar.
1910: Henry Dunant, a Swiss humanitarian, businessman, and social activist.
1974: Begum Akhtar, a ghazal, Dadra, and thumri singer from India.
1979: Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, an English scientist, engineer, and inventor.
1987: Joseph John Campbell, an American professor of literature.
1990: V. Shantaram, Indian Filmmaker, director, and actor.
1994: Sardar Swarna Singh, Indian Union Minister.
2005: Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian politician.
2011: Arvind Mafatlal, Indian industrialist.
2015: Sudhira Das, an Indian engineer.
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Historical Events - October 28
1420 : Beijing had officially named the capital of the Ming Dynasty.
1490 : Christopher Columbus arrived in Cuba after his first voyage.
1636 : Establishment of Harvard University in the United States.
1886 : France presented the Statue of Liberty to America as a token of friendship.
1904 : Political relations were established between Panama and Uruguay.
1913 : Jain Shwetambar Terapanthi Sabha was established.
1922 : Fascists in Italy, led by Benito Mussolini, overthrow the government in Rome.
1940 : In World War II, Italy invaded Greece.
1962 : Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union, announced that his country will withdraw nuclear missiles deployed in Sadi, Cuba, targeted by the US.
1969 : Tarapur Atomic Power Station started.
Famous Birthdays – October 28
1867: Margaret Nobel Sister Nivedita, a disciple of Swami Vivekananda.
1886: O.G. S. Crawford, British archaeologist
1930: Anjaan, a famous lyricist in the Hindi cinema.
1955: Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft.
1955: Indra Nooyi, an American corporate officer of Indian descent.
1956: Mohammad Ahmadinejad, the 6th President of Iran.
1958: Ashok Chavan, Indian politician.
1963: Urjit Patel, an Indian economist, who served as the 24th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.
1967: Julia Roberts, American actress.
1969: Leena Nair, the first female, first Asian, youngest ever Chief Human Resource Officer of Unilever and member of the Unilever Leadership Executive.
1974: Joaquin Rafael Phoenix, an American actor, environmentalist, animal rights activist, and producer.
1979: Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube, and the first person to upload a video on youtube.
Death anniversaries – October 28
1627: Jahangir, 4th Mughal Emperor.
1900: Max Müller, a German-born philologist and Orientalist.
1944: Helen White, the first American woman to receive a doctorate.
1998: Thomas Harold Flowers, an English engineer with the British General Post Office.
1999: Rafael Alberti Merello, a Spanish poet.
2002: Erling Persson, founder of H&M.
2010: Jonathan Motzfeldt, Greenland’s first prime minister.
1958 : In Pakistan, General Ayub Khan staged a military coup and ousted President Iskander Mirza.
1961 : Mauritania and Mongolia joined the United Nations.
1961 : NASA tested the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
1971 : The Democratic Republic of the Congo was renamed Zaire.
1986 : The United Kingdom lifted all restrictions on financial markets.
1991 : Turkmenistan gained independence from Russia.
2003 : Earthquake in China affected more than 50,000 people.
2019 : The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed himself and three children by detonating a suicide vest during the U.S. military Barisha raid in north-western Syria.
Famous Birthdays – October 27
1670: Banda Singh Bahadur, a Sikh warrior and a commander of the Khalsa army.
1858: Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States and winner of the Nobel Prize.
1904: Jatin Das, Indian freedom fighters, and revolutionaries.
1920: KR Narayanan, the 10th President of India.
1923: Arvind Mafatlal, Indian industrialist.
1932: Sylvia Plath, an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer.
1947: Dr. Vikas Amte, Indian Social worker.
1954: Anuradha Poudwal, Indian playback singer.
1976: Maneet Chauhan, an Indian-American chef, and writer.
1977: Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer.
1984: Irfan Pathan, Indian cricketer.
Death Anniversaries – October 27
1605: Akbar the Great, the third Mughal emperor.
1937: Ustad Abdul Karim Khan, founder of Kirana Gharana and Guru of Sawai Gandharva.
1941: Ernest Everett Just, a pioneering African-American biologist, academic and science writer.
1964: Vaikuntha Mehta, the promoter of the (Sahakari) co-operative movement.
1968: Lise Meitner, an Austrian-Swedish physicist.
1974: Chakravarti Ramanujam, Mathematical.
1974: Rudolf Dassler, German founder of the sportswear company Puma and the older brother of Adidas founder, Adolf Dassler.
1987: Vijay Merchant, Indian cricketer, cricket critic, businessman and social activist.
1992: David Joseph Bohm, an American scientist.
2001: Pradeep Kumar, Indian-Hindi, and Bengali films.
2001: Bhaskar Ramchandra Bhagwat, a children’s writer and science fiction writer from India.
2013: Lewis Allan Reed, an American musician, singer, songwriter, and poet.
2015: Ranjit Roy Chaudhary, Indian pharmacologist and academic.
1958 : In Pakistan, General Ayub Khan staged a military coup and ousted President Iskander Mirza.
1961 : Mauritania and Mongolia joined the United Nations.
1961 : NASA tested the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
1971 : The Democratic Republic of the Congo was renamed Zaire.
1986 : The United Kingdom lifted all restrictions on financial markets.
1991 : Turkmenistan gained independence from Russia.
2003 : Earthquake in China affected more than 50,000 people.
2019 : The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed himself and three children by detonating a suicide vest during the U.S. military Barisha raid in north-western Syria.
Famous Birthdays – October 27
1670: Banda Singh Bahadur, a Sikh warrior and a commander of the Khalsa army.
1858: Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States and winner of the Nobel Prize.
1904: Jatin Das, Indian freedom fighters, and revolutionaries.
1920: KR Narayanan, the 10th President of India.
1923: Arvind Mafatlal, Indian industrialist.
1932: Sylvia Plath, an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer.
1947: Dr. Vikas Amte, Indian Social worker.
1954: Anuradha Poudwal, Indian playback singer.
1976: Maneet Chauhan, an Indian-American chef, and writer.
1977: Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer.
1984: Irfan Pathan, Indian cricketer.
Death Anniversaries – October 27
1605: Akbar the Great, the third Mughal emperor.
1937: Ustad Abdul Karim Khan, founder of Kirana Gharana and Guru of Sawai Gandharva.
1941: Ernest Everett Just, a pioneering African-American biologist, academic and science writer.
1964: Vaikuntha Mehta, the promoter of the (Sahakari) co-operative movement.
1968: Lise Meitner, an Austrian-Swedish physicist.
1974: Chakravarti Ramanujam, Mathematical.
1974: Rudolf Dassler, German founder of the sportswear company Puma and the older brother of Adidas founder, Adolf Dassler.
1987: Vijay Merchant, Indian cricketer, cricket critic, businessman and social activist.
1992: David Joseph Bohm, an American scientist.
2001: Pradeep Kumar, Indian-Hindi, and Bengali films.
2001: Bhaskar Ramchandra Bhagwat, a children’s writer and science fiction writer from India.
2013: Lewis Allan Reed, an American musician, singer, songwriter, and poet.
2015: Ranjit Roy Chaudhary, Indian pharmacologist and academic.
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Historical Events - October 26
1863 : The Football Association was founded.
1936 : The first electric generators on Hoover dams were fully operational.
1947 : After the partition of India Pakistan, the Hindu king of the Muslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir decided to go with India on the day of attack from Pakistan.
1956 : On the third day of the ongoing fighting between the protesters and the Soviet army, Hungarian new Prime Minister Imre Negi appealed to the people to maintain peace.
1958 : Pan American Airways launched its first commercial airline.
1994 : A peace treaty was signed between Israel and Jordan, ending the 46-year-old war.
1999 : National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) researcher VV Ranade was awarded a Golden Jubilee Fellowship by the Central Government.
Famous Birthdays – October 26
899AD: Alfred the Great, King of Wessex.
1270: Saint Namdev, Indian saint.
1890: Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, Indian journalist, and politician.
1891: Vaikuntha Mehta, Indian promoter of the Sahakari movement.
1900: Ezra Mir, Indian film director, the pioneer of documentary production.
1916: François Mitterrand, French statesman, the 21st President of France.
1919: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran.
1937: Hridaynath Mangeshkar, Indian musician, and singer.
1947: Hillary Clinton, American politician, diplomat, lawyer, writer, public speaker, and the 67th Secretary of State of the United States.
1954: Lakshmikant Berde, an Indian actor who worked in Hindi and Marathi films.
1974: Raveena Tandon, Indian actress.
1985: Asin, Indian actress.
1991: Amala Paul, Indian actress.
Death Anniversaries – October 26
1909: Ito Hirobumi, Japan’s first prime minister.
1930: Dr. Waldemar Huffkin, the microbiologist who invented the plague and cholera vaccine.
1957: Gerty Cori, an Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist.
1979: Chandulal Nagindas Vakil, Indian economist.
1999: Eknath Isharanan, Indian-American writer and teacher.
2007: Arthur Kornberg, an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology.